1994-2014: 20 years of South African
Democracy Programme Outline
Thursday 24th April 2014
09.00-18.00 Day-long Roundtable Session on Provincial Government organised by the
Gauteng Provincial Legislature (Core Business Division) & African Studies Centre,
University of Oxford | Gateway Pavilion Seminar Room
18.00-19.30 Informal supper St. Antony’s College for panelists in Oxford & launch of Hugh
Macmillan’s The Lusaka Years (Jacana) | Dining Hall, St. Antony’s College (TBC)
20.00-22.00 Performance of Matthew Hahn’s Robben Island Bible with reception hosted by
Brand South Africa | Nissan Lecture Theatre/CCR (TBC)
Friday 25th April 2014
8.30-9.00 Registration | Ground Floor, Hilda Besse Building, St. Antony’s College.
9.00-10.30 Session I
History in Post-apartheid South Africa (Nissan Lecture Theatre): W. Beinart, C. Bundy, S.
Dubow, J. Saul.
Crime & Violence I (Gateway Pavilion Seminar Room) S. Jensen, G. Kynoch, K. von Holdt.
Chair: J. Steinberg.
Public Policy I (Dahrendorf Room) W. Attwell, T. Luescher-Mamashela, M. Shangase.
South Africa & Africa (Fellows Dining Room) O. Adesina, M. Thabane, TBC.
Culture (Deakin Room) L. Gunner, L. Whittaker, TBC Chair: K. Easton.
10.30-11.00 Coffee/Tea & biscuits | Buttery
11.00-12.30 Session II
New South Africa Review 4 Panel (Nissan Lecture Theatre) R. Southall et al.
Federalism & the Constitution (Gateway Pavilion Seminar Room) R. Calland, J. February,
F. Venter Chair: C. Murray.
South African Foreign Policy (Fellows Dining Room) D. Bargueno, M. Graham, S. Zondi.
Chair: R. S. de Oliveira.
HIV/AIDS & Citizenship (Dahrendorf Room) R. Lee, H. MacGregor, E. Mills. Chair: J.
Steinberg.
12.30-13.30 Lunch | St. Antony’s College Dining Hall
13.40-15.10
Keynote Address by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe with introduction by RSA High
Commissioner to the UK | Nissan Lecture theatre w/video link to Fellows Dining Room &
Gateway Pavilion Seminar Room.
15.20 – 16.50 Session III
Public Opinion & Political Parties (Nissan Lecture Theatre) D. Everatt, R. Mattes, C.
Schulz-Herzenberg. Chair: S. Mac Giollabhuí.
Law & Nation-building (Gateway Pavilion) J. Daniel, M. Du Plessis, C. Murray. Chair: C.
Jenkins.
Environmental Policy (Fellows Dining Room) C. Death, D. Lavin, M. Ramutsindela.
Urban Life & Housing (Deakin Room) I. Makukule, A. Mosselson, S. Wilson.
16.50-17.10 Tea/Coffee break | Buttery
17.10-18.40 Session IV
Constitutional Court (Nissan Lecture Theatre) H. Corder, T. Roux, TBC.
ANC as Organisation II (Gateway Pavilion Seminar Room) F. Anciano, A. Beresford, I.
Cooper.
Homelands & Traditional Authorities I (Fellows Dining Room) A. Ainslie & T. Kepe, M.
Hay, J. Hickel.
Youth (Deakin Room) A. Akpome, A. Garman, A. Heffernan.
18.50-20.00 Conference Dinner | St. Antony’s College Dining Hall
20.10- 21.45 Plenary Session- Professor Adam Habib, Tony Leon, Justice Kate O’Regan,
Professor Xolela Mangcu | Nissan Lecture Theatre
Saturday 26th April 2014
8.30-9.00 Registration
9.00-10.30 Session I
ANC as Organisation I (Nissan Lecture Theatre) A. Butler, M. Bogaards, S. Mac
Giollabhuí.
Crime & Violence II (Gateway Pavilion Seminar Room) A. Collins, R. Matzapolous, S.
Mathis.
Minorities & Transition (Fellows Dining Room) W. Attwell & C. Saunders, D. Conway &
P.Leonard, D. van Zyl-Hermann.
Gender & Citizenship (Deakin Room) A. Goebel, D. Hrzán, R. Johnson.
10.30-11.00. Coffee/Tea & Biscuits | Buttery
11.00-12.30 Session II
ANC in office: Economic Policy (Nissan Lecture Theatre) W. Gumede, R.W. Johnson, C.
Ngcobo. Chair: S. Mac Giollabhuí.
Public Policy II (Gateway Pavilion Seminar Room) R. Hodes, X. Mangcu, J. Siko.
Homelands & Traditional Authorities II (Dahrendorf Room) T.Gibbs, A. Manson,
O.Zenker.
Non-Racialism (Fellows Dining Room) D. Everatt, I. Filatova, M. Kustenbauder.
13.00-14.00 Lunch | St. Antony’s College Dining Hall
14.00-15.30 Session III
Popular Protest (Nissan Lecture Theatre) S.Mottiar & T. Lodge, F. Rueedi, D. Zelenova.
ANC and Consolidation of Democracy (Gateway Pavilion Seminar Room) P. Bonner, S.
Hurt, N. de Jager. Chair: S. Mac Giollabhuí.
PARI: New Perspectives on the South Africa State (Dahrendorf Room) I. Chipkin, S.
Meny-Gibert/N. Morgan, R. Brunette.
Land & Land Reform (Fellows Dining Room) W. Beinart, R. Hall, TBC.
15.30-16.00 Coffee/Tea & Biscuits | Buttery
16.00-17.30 Session IV
2014 Election Panel (Nissan Lecture Theatre) A. Butler, J. Robinson, C. Schulz-Herzenberg,
R. Southall.
Parliament & Institutions (Gateway Pavilion Seminar Room) K. Ahmed, L. Matemba, V.
Njokweni.
State & Civil Society (Fellows Dining Room) S. Cross, P. Dexter & W. Seale, E.
Sutherland.
Homelands & Traditional Authorities III (Dahrendorf Room) D. Skosana, E. Mavungu L.
Phillips.
17.30-18.30 Tim Gibbs Mandela’s Kinsmen & John S. Saul (& P. Bond) South Africa: The
Present as History James Currey; Roger Southall et al. New South Africa Review 4 &
Adam Habib’s South Africa’s Suspended Revolution WITS University Press | Book
Launches | Location TBC
18.45-19.45 Reception (drinks & canapés) | Combined Common Room (CCR)
20.00-21.30 Final Session TBC
21.30 Close of Conference | Combined Common Room (CCR)